So it’s safe to say that my group and I have done a lot in the past week. 1st we’ve created our characters (which you can see below), I created the designs for them in the thought that it appeals the clients idea of a ‘Dumb Ways to Die’ style, which Adam amazingly finalized in Photoshop, and with the Rayman themed body it makes it easier for us to animate them, plus we’ve been getting a lot compliments about their design from the pitch we did (which I’ll discuss in a bit). 2nd we’ve also completed a first draft of our script for the animation which available to look at here – Emergency Vehicle script. We’ve sent it out to some of our tutors as well as our clients to gain some feedback, so far our tutors have replied and say that it’s a little repetitive but quite humorous and informative, which is a good sign. And 3rd we did a pitch to Andy, Debra and the class. Originally it was suppose to be to our clients but they were unavailable to attend, so our tutors and peers stepped in as a substitute, which was nice of them because we got a lot of positive feedback and helpful suggestions from them:

We plan to pitch to our clients next week, but we need to check when they are available first.

Vimeo. 2017. LHC: Tips on driving a left hand car on Vimeo. [ONLINE] Available at: https://vimeo.com/213232169. [Accessed 28 April 2017].

During the pitch one of our peers Maria linked us to a helpful reference that she had made. The animation is about giving tips for left hand driving, and it has the same sort of structure that we’re trying to achieve in our animation, minus the narration and humorous ‘Don’ts’ section. The animation is nice and clean and colour palette is consistent throughout, a good reference for us to follow. Thanks

Next Steps

Hopefully by the next blog post we would have pitched to our clients and they would’ve hopefully given us positive feedback to us. As well as this we plan to get started the animation trying to crack out at least the opening sequence and voice work by the end of the week.